The Darkness Full Card Art

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I think it works better by understanding that it randomly prevents card draw for 3 turns (paying 4 is prohibitively expensive).
So with that in mind, how can this card be useful?

I’m thinking warlock is the deck for this guy with gnomeferatu and the howlfiend/treachery combo. Cripple the opponent’s hand and draw.

Also DK Valeera combos well, and it’s immune to vanish while dormant. Prevents card draw twice as much, and can wake up faster, and your opponent must deal with both copies when they do. Good single card add to compliment 2 arcane giants.

On the subject of doubling its battlecry, murmuring elemental gives great value to the darkness for only 1 mana.

In short, I believe the darkness’ battlecry can be powerful if properly exploited.

Another bad thing about this card is, it will go out of dormant state on your openent turn. Unless you force him to draw on your turn, and not milling him.
Btw if you shuffle 6 candles into your openents deck does it still need 3 to awaken?

well lets say that you draw single card ( legend )in turn 4 lets say you skip ENTIRE TURN to play it
Let say enemie will play enough cards to awaken it well… chance that YOU PLAY IT and it AWAKENS is aboot 1/928 sooo its slim like REALY SLIM
and it can be summoned by any summon effeckt wich makes skip batelcry(BAD)
ir by dirty rat(BAD)
Or enemy burns candle(BAD)
well i think good outcome is preeeety slim

where did you get those numbers from? 1/928 chance? Have you played ambush? more than once I managed to summon all three Nerubians from my opponents deck
and in Day9’s stream with Ben Brode he went though only half his deck and already snuffled out 2 candles I guarantee you if the game went any longer The Darkness would’ve awoken

If you play this with brann in wild and shuffles 6 cards, does it still require only 3 candles to be drawn for it to awaken? OR will the requirement go up to 6? This in wild with brann would counter highlander decks shuffling six cards and costing a removal, (ehem priest) add in Loatheb lol.

It’s cool as all hell, but I’m not convinced it’ll be that useful because when the third candle is drawn it’ll be at the start of your opponent’s turn (Mill decks notwithstanding) – and they’re likely to have 10 mana and had several turns to prepare.

Razakus can hold a Mind Control, Shadowreaper Anduin, Power Word Death, or hope they had a Kazakus spell that transforms everything into sheep.

Exodia Mage can just keep it frozen or tech in a Polymorph (or hope they got one from another card).

Miracle Rogue can Vilespine Slayer it.

… of course, if your opponent doesn’t draw a counter, they’re possibly completely hosed – but this gives them plenty of warning.

Well it doesn’t stop it dead – but it slows it the hell down. Remember they only have to draw 2 of the candles to get Raza and Kazakus back in play – the trick will be killing them before that happens.

Mind, delaying the Kazakus spell will probably be more powerful against Razakus Priest than having a 20/20 minion on the board.

I just don’t think this will be a “must craft” since you’ve only got a 50% chance of playing the Darkness before they play Kazakus (they’re both 4 mana Legendaries) and both Kazakus and Raza rotate out of Standard in a few months.

This is just a bad C’Thun. In the C’Thun meta everyone hold a card to kill him when he’s played on the board. At least C’Thun could trigger his battlecry, this guy will just die right after he awakes in 90% of the times.
But is a counter to Raza and Kazakus, so for sure it’ll have it’s place in alot of decks.

You could play this when your opponent has 2-5 cards left on your turn. And on your next turn, you can double coldlight to draw all candles on your turn and attack? Or will you need to waif another turn for it to attack like Sherazin? Then I doubt its any good,..

if enemy burns candle its not casted so need to be realy caerfull
so if you play it somehow with bran and oracle( shadowsteped ealier) it gives you decend chance
or in control shaman with 1/1 elemental wich dubles next BC

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

Here is my problem with this card, it literally has the chance to go out of its dormant state in one turn. Don’t even say that the chances are low, because this is hearthstone and we have seen more impossible things happen commonly.

So, you land this on the table, the opponent draws a candle and you have a 20/20 on board, he kills it, it comes back 2 more times, possibly. Also stops Raza and Kazakus from triggering, Seems interesting.

Am I the only one thinking this is a bit overpowered and will be nerfed soon after being released? Either that or they change the phrasing to “draw all 3 candles”.

For some reason my post didn’t make the board, admins didn’t like the web link for their own page.
Anyway, the wording is the same as for Deck of Wonders. Does that mean you have to draw all 5 to cast one spell?

How do you know that? Intuition? Facts are facts, wording is the same, effect is the same. Can’t go around that. Either one is drawn and the effect happens, or all need to be drawn and the effect happens. It should be the same for both cards.

Yes, it works that way. In rogue and druid is pretty easy to get 2. Rogue with the dk and druid with the new legendary that summons a copy. I think it can fit in mill rogue better though since it’s already pretty strong and you can give the opponent 6 candles instead of 3 like druid would do.

Wait a second. If you Evolve/Devolve a minion into this, that means -1 minion slots? Unless they have the card in their deck, there’s no way to awaken this. If you recruit this from your deck, it’s -1 minion slot..

Beautiful counter to Razakus, now my quest priest will be better in constructed.
But against any other deck, this is TOTAL 0(Except druid that has few destroying cards.
Let’s remember the C’Thun meta where everyone hold a card in hand to kill it(ex: Priest the shadow word:death, mage the polymorph). At least C’Thun could trigger his battlecry.
And how would it feel to see Twilight Acolyte tooking the 20 atk? xd

I’m sorry, the FUCK?! This minion is absolutely busted in mill, and even if they destroy it you still got a removal spell out of it for only 4 mana. meanwhile, you can just make this a 4 mana 20/20 taunt creature, which is absolutely busted. now to see what those candles do.

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